November 23, 2004 by s.z.

Whazzup With Wingnuts?

A time to get to find out what's shaking with our favorite loonies, and/or to get to know the person behind the nuttery.

1.  Doug Giles

SullyWatch has a very good discussion of that column of Doug's which won Andrew Sullivan's prestigious "John Derbyshire Award."  (As you will recall, it was the column about the vicious pitbull Christians ripping out the throats of the poodle Christians, and then being captured by Animal Control and put to sleep.)

And, of course, Bartholomew is the best source of info on Doug's theology (for instance, in posts such as this and this -- but don't forget this noteworthy photo of Doug before he found mousse.

So, I don't think I can contribute any additional background information on Mr. Giles or his Clash Church.  Except maybe for a few notes from The Great Beaver page, which is part of the official (as far as I can tell) site of the city of Riverbend, CA.

March 27, Wayne McCarthy and town crier, Doug Giles vow to keep looking and find the great beaver.. (read more)

March 29, Beaver searchers, Wayne McCarthy and town crier, Doug Giles lost in freak snowstorm... (read more)

April 4, trapper Wayne McCarthy and town crier, Doug Giles found by local man, Jordan Beller. They were wandering amongst beaver dams frantically searching... (read more)

May 25, an announcement that the Great Beaver will be exhibited at a special function in Rainy River.. (read more)

Beaver feaver hits McCarthy and Giles, fear runs throught the community... (read more)

Now it's possible that this is a different Doug Giles, since I really can't see our Doug frantically searching for beaver (or catching beaver fever), even if he was lost in a freak snowstorm.  And the photo doesn't look much like him.  But maybe this all happened in Doug's sinful youth, back when he was a drug dealer, thief, and town crier (he still seems kinda whiny even now).  Yes, I can sorta see him living in California, and resorting to cannibalism after getting lost in that snow storm while looking for beaver -- and then finding Extreme Jesus, and becoming the testosterone-fog excreting tripod whom we've come to know and love.

But to resolve the issue, I suggest we use the Mike Adams fact-checking methodology, and conclude that this far-fetched story is the truth unless Doug contacts us to let us know that it isn't.

2.  Mike Adams

And speaking of Mike, how goes his defense in that defamation suit he was threatened with by Senator Julia Boseman for having claimed that she and her partner were raising a child sired by her brother (and for having nastily insinuated that some kind of hillbilly incest was going on)?

Well, you be the judge:

The alleged defamatory remark came from a sentence in one of my previous editorials. According to Boseman, she and her domestic partner had “their” baby with sperm donated from an unknown source. My article had claimed that it was one of Boseman’s biological brothers.

While all of my sources were consistent (and Julia declined to proof read the article), I have recently been getting contradictory information from the Boseman family.

Mike has sperm sources? Ewwww!

One member of the Boseman family says that the truth is not important. What matters is that I “have offended the Boseman’s” by saying that Julia is raising her nephew.

But now, since the threat of the lawsuit, another member of the Boseman family has named one of the Boseman’s as the probable sperm donor, leaving me to wonder whether the Bosemans will start filing lawsuits against one another in order to spare the family reputation. Maybe this will be done by showing that the father of Julia’s child is unknown, which they consider to be less defamatory than the notion that Julia and her partner are raising a nephew.

Remember when John Kerry mentioned that Mary Cheney was a lesbian, and the wingnuts (and their unindicted coconspirators) were outraged about somebody "using" the sexual orientation of a politician's child (an adult child who was an active part of the campaign, and who had used her sexual orientation in her work) to try to score points against an opponent?  Okay, now tell me how much worse is it to use a BABY to try malign the sexual orientation of a politician, in order to try to smear said politician? Now, tell me how the publishers of Townhall continue to "print" Mike Adams' writing without fearing for their immortal souls?

Specifically, Julia Boseman has three demands for dropping the lawsuit: She wants a retraction, payment of attorney’s fees, and a public apology.

I have already run a retraction, making it clear that Julia maintains that she is not raising her nephew, but, instead, the child of an unknown person.

I think Ms. Boseman actually maintains that she is raising her and her partner's child. 

But now, I have learned that Julia’s attorney has taken her case for free. So, today, I am mailing a check for $0.00 to her attorney.  I suppose that takes care of that. Now it’s time for the public apology.

Julia, I am truly sorry that my previous editorial characterized you as a “nephew raiser.” I am also sorry that many readers of this article have come to the conclusion that you tried to file a frivolous lawsuit against me in order to obtain lawyer’s fees that you never actually paid.

Now, everything is better and readers no longer dub the Senator a “nephew raiser.” Now they are engaged in a heated debate over whether she is serious, which would make her an “extortionist,” or whether she is simply acting, which would make her a “lesbian thespian.” Opinions vary, but the race is still too close for CBS to make the final call.

Mikey, I've heard of many cases where the lawyer was awarded legal fees even if she took the case pro bono.  (The actual lawyers out there probably know a lot more about this than me.)  I don't know if Ms. Boseman has a good case against you, but it would be awfully sweet if a judge ordered you not only to pay attorney fees and court costs, but also socked you with punitive damanges for being such a jerk.  So, keep being a "cowboy" instead of apologizing and trying to settle this thing, and see what happens -- I hope it doesn't end up forcing you to sell all those cherished guns in order to pay Ms. Boseman a huge settlement.  (Okay, I hope it does, but I also want you to lose your car.)

3.  Kerry L. Marsala

Sadly,No! made us read Kerry's column about how she and her fellow conservatives are being endlessly criticized by the "robotic, socialistic snoots" of Salon, just because of the "so called 'lack' of our abilities to live up to their level of knowledge on grammar and punctuation."  Yes, it's a sad day when the nation's robots make fun of conservative writers for fifth-rate wingnut sites just because they can't write.  (And yes, we know that Salon Magazine has only heard of Kerry in her self-important fantasies.)

Anyway, that column caused us to do some research into Kerry's background.  Thanks to her bios available here, here, and here, we know that:

Arizona is where she currently corrals her posse, although she's a beach bum'n girl at heart.
During the 80's Ms. Marsala worked as a freelance photojournalist for The Rock Revue and Newsreel Magazine.
Ms. Marsala holds a master's degree in ancient history and Biblical studies. She is currently working on her degree in bio-ethics and political science.
She is co-publisher of Sarah's Seed Journal and has published one book, with number two waiting in the wings. 

But have we ever heard of The Rock Revue and Newsreel Magazine?  No! 

(The first Google hit for "Newsreel Magazine" indicates that "Newsreel Magazine is a unique monthly interactive audio cassette magazine produced in the voices of its blind or visually impaired subscribers."  It seems unlikely that they would need photojournalists, so that's probably not the one where Kerry freelanced -- but I don't feel like doing any more research on it.  So, I agree with whichever of you said in the comments that "freelancer for The Rock Review" equals "groupie.")

But let's read part of her her bio at Sarah's Seed, the quarterly journal for Christian women which Kerry publishes with her mother.

KERRY MARSALA- ASSISTANT EDITOR
Salutations!,
My name is Kerry Marsala and I am a Christian, a wife, and a mother of six wonderful kids. Our children range from 23 to 4 years of age. We have four boys and two girls. Five of our children have obeyed the gospel.

Too bad about that child who is going to hell!  And of course, although Kerry says that the other five kids are on the stairway to heaven, it's kind of early to be claiming that the 4-year-old is a dedicated Christian.

Oh, and at Sarah's Seed we found out how Kerry can get a book published, despite her lack of ability to live up to the snooty publishing world's level of knowledge of grammar, punctuation, and writing.

I've published my first book.  It is called A Woman's Study on James.  It is in workbook format.  Available for purchase on either  CD or Workbook.

Yes, not only is it self-published, but it's either a workbook or CD. And that's how Kerry Marsala got around "the intelligentsia crowd," which continues to "spit venom of disgust over our inability to be as some of the demagogue entertainers and over our lack of over-rated and over-valued education degrees," and became a published author!  Congrats, Kerry! 

Well, that's whazzup with wingnuts for this time.  If you are a wingnut and have some newsworthy information about yourself that you'd think we'd enjoy, please feel free to share.  Thanks. 

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